[wiki-research] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia Research, Quantitative Analysis, General User Survey and more

[Filippo Salustri]

Yes & no, I think.

While I take your meaning, Helmut, I think "wikipedia research" is closer 
to studying a single ecosystem than it is studying a single species.  While 
the one ecosystem will not inform you about *all* ecosystems, it will 
inform you about the possibly rich assortment of phenomena it contains, AND 
suggest a range of general principles that will likely apply to many though 
likely not all other ecosystems.

Cheers.
Fil

Helmut Leitner wrote:
> I think that "Wikipedia research" has an absurd quality.
> It is like starting biology from studying a single species.
> [...]

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